University of Birmingham experts have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand how fast-moving ...

GIMP has a worthy competitor in the open-source world.

Open-source software will continue its march through the enterprise technology stack, buoyed by AI and (hopefully) transformative funding solutions that address sustainability. Over the past decades, ...

When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

The open source database company marks 20 years with a new brand and a direct challenge to an industry selling open source while locking the door behind it ...

In 2025, Daniel Stenberg, the chief maintainer of cURL, an open-source software tool that transfers data using URLs, received 181 notifications of bugs or vulnerabilities across the codebase he ...

Earlier this year, a Microsoft developer realized that someone had inserted a backdoor into the code of open source utility XZ Utils, which is used in virtually all Linux operating systems. The ...

Open-source software development has followed the same cycle for decades: passionate developers create innovative tools that attract the attention of large companies. Then, as companies adopt these ...

Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating proprietary versions that appear both functional and legally distinct. The partly ...

Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking ...

AI has upended the foundation of open source security, and commercial open source applications must close their code to protect sensitive data.